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If we say that we are in the light, yet hate others, we are in the darkness to this very hour. If we love others, we live in the light, and so there is nothing in us that will cause someone else to sin. But if we hate others, we are in the darkness; we walk in it and do not know where we are going,
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was revised by the NGK to indicate that "any attempt by a church to try to defend a system of separation, biblically and ethically must be seen as a serious errancy; that is to say, it is in conflict with the Bible." From the APK's point of view that was not acceptable; it continued its support of
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The church also holds to the traditional, pre-1986 views of the DRC in that it believes that the Bible not only condones, but actively prescribes, racial segregation. Its foundation in 1987 was precisely to uphold the traditional, racist theology of the DRC. It thus does not consider the 1986
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So Jesus said to them, "The light is among you for a little while longer. Walk while you have the light, lest darkness overtake you. The one who walks in the darkness does not know where he is going. While you have the light, believe in the light, that you may become sons of
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by some branches of the DRC; the NGK, while stopping short of adopting the Belhar Confession, retracted its 1976 defence of apartheid as a biblical imperative, instead releasing a "more nuanced" document called
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as a creed of the church. This belief is traditionally justified on their interpretation of God's commandment to the Israelites in the Old Testament to separate themselves from the heathen nations.
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federation with about 35,000 adherents. The federation consists of 103 congregations, mostly in South Africa, although the APK also includes 7 congregations in Namibia.
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theology" and thus outraged the more conservative clergy within the NGK: as a "direct result" the Afrikaanse Protestantse Kerk was founded in
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In 1988 the APK set up a seminary so its pastors could be trained independently, the Afrikaanse Protestantse Akademie, which is based in
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apartheid. The decision of the NGK widened the schism and led to an increase in conservative NGK congregations that joined the APK.
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on Saturday, 27 June 1987 by 3000 dissidents, together with conservative elements from other branches of the DRC in South Africa.
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population. The shock of this isolation from other branches of the Reformed Churches worldwide led to the adoption in 1986 of the
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and the sole authority in all matters of faith. Like most offshoots of the DRC, the APK focuses its theology around the
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in doctrine. It believes the biblical faith to be accurately summarised in the ecumenical confessions (the
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during worship services, preferring to use older translations. The APK opposed reforms it considered as
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However, the document "reflected the new majority consensus within the NGK which rejected the older,
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in the NGK as a reason to split off. The new church opposed the use of the
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Kerk en Samelewing 25 jaar later : was die kool die sous werd?
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The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in South Africa
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that provided "qualified support for separate development."
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Calvinist denominations established in the 20th century
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Index

Afrikaanse Protestantse Kerk

Reformed
Polity
Presbyterian
Namibia
Separated from
Dutch Reformed Church in South Africa (NGK)
Ministers
http://apk.co.za/
Reformed Church
World Alliance of Reformed Churches
apartheid
heresy
Dutch Reformed Church in South Africa (NGK)
Dutch Reformed Church
mother church
Afrikaner
Belhar Confession
Kuyperian
Pretoria
Arminian
liberal theology
1983 Afrikaans Bible translation
modernist
Calvinism
Pretoria
infallible Word of God
Three Forms of Unity
Calvinist

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